[ale] Another MacOSX question

[fletch at phydeaux.org (fletch at phydeaux.org)]

> I've got a friend that has a PowerPC Mac.  his father in law wants "to
> see more of the kids".  His solution is an iSight.  But he does not want
> to plop $149 for the iSight.  We looked at one at the Apple Store and I
> actually think it is a nice unit and the video is nice too.  Does he
> have another option?  He was thinking of simply plugging in his FireWire
> DV capable video camera and using it.  I do not know if the same
> software that uses iSight could use a DV camera.

Firewire video camera is a firewire video camera.  I've played with my
Sony camera (dc320 or something) and iChat and it works fine; only problem
is the camera has an annoying tendency to go to sleep after 5 minutes of
inactivity.

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